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1260s BC

decade

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ612037 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1260s BC is a decade that lasted from 1269 BC to 1260 BC.

Events and trends

c. 1263 BC—Ramses II, king of ancient Egypt, and Hattusilis III, king of the Hittites, sign the earliest known peace treaty.

1263 BC—The approximate date traditionally offered for the biblical Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt under the leadership of Moses.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1260s BC” as decade. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1269, 1260, 1263—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where 1260s and decade can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as decade. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q612037. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1269, 1260 and 1263.

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The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “1260s BC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.